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The winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, compared by critics to the works of Graham Greene, Denis Johnson, and George Orwell,The Sympathizer is a blistering exploration of identity, politics, and America, wrought in electric prose. The narrator, a Vietnamese army captain, is a man of divided loyalties, a half-French, half-Vietnamese communist sleeper agent in America after the end of the Vietnam War. A powerful story of love and friendship, and a gripping espionage novel,The Sympathizer examines the legacy of the Vietnam War in literature, film, and the wars we fight today.
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The sympathizer, Viet Thanh Nguyen
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- Released
- 2015
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- Title
- The sympathizer
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Viet Thanh Nguyen
- Publisher
- Grove Press
- Released
- 2015
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 384
- ISBN10
- 0802124941
- ISBN13
- 9780802124944
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Mystery & Thriller, Politics, Friendship, Suspense, USA, Wars, Literary Fiction, Asia, Espionage, Escape, Spy Novels, Communism, Hollywood, Adapted into Series, Refugees, Exile, Political Thrillers, Vietnam, Integration, Pulitzer Prize, Political Novels, Vietnamese Literature, Double Agents
- First published
- 2015
- Original title
- The Sympathizer
- Rating
- 4 out of 5
- Description
- The winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, compared by critics to the works of Graham Greene, Denis Johnson, and George Orwell,The Sympathizer is a blistering exploration of identity, politics, and America, wrought in electric prose. The narrator, a Vietnamese army captain, is a man of divided loyalties, a half-French, half-Vietnamese communist sleeper agent in America after the end of the Vietnam War. A powerful story of love and friendship, and a gripping espionage novel,The Sympathizer examines the legacy of the Vietnam War in literature, film, and the wars we fight today.